Trump’s preferred lying platform, Twitter, can fact check him all it wants, it can label his tweets for violating rules against glorifying violence but none of this will stop him ever. Still, Twitter made an attempt to signal the mendacity of his tweets to the Twitterverse by including a small link below that tweet that led to more reliable information about the topic. Trump was railing against mail-in-ballots. Then he railed against Twitter for fact-checking him. But what came next was much uglier.

As the protests over the senseless killing of George Floyd spread from Minneapolis around the country, Trump tweeted: “….These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!” (read article / leer en Español)